Join us at the Senior Thesis Panel to hear about the kind of work students do in Comparative Literature!

List of Presenters:

Chen, Jackie, Economics (dbl)
Tutor: Nate Herter
Mentor: John Hamilton
Title: Mythologizing the Trade: Postwar Reckoning with the Classical Tradition in John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Gallo, Juan, Applied Math (dbl)
Tutor: Anna Hennigan
Mentor: Mariano Siskind
Title: When the Magic Breaks, Blindness Spreads, and the Devil Arrives
Narrative Heterotopias and Politics of Spatial Estrangement in Bulgakov, García Márquez, and Saramago.

Haidar, Emma
Tutor: Paul Chouchana
Mentor: Annette Lienau
Title: The Writer as a Mercenary Witness: The Ethics of Fictionalizing Suffering in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s La prière de l’absent, Les yeux baissés, and Partir

Kishoiyian, Victoria
Tutor: Esther Heller
Mentor: Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Title: Everyone With Their Own Stones: Print, ‘Mau Mau’ Pacification, and the Workers’ Party of Kenya—December Twelve Movement—MWAKENYA, 1974-2001

Ma, Xinran (Olivia), Joint Classics I
Tutor: Benjamin Landauer
Mentor: Emily Greenwood
Title: Voices of Ambition and Critique: Contrasting Historical Inquiry in Herodotus’ Histories and Sima Qian’s Shiji

Morehead, Max
Tutor: Zhuoyu Lin
Mentor: Moira Weigel
Title: From Witnessing to Exit: Dissent, Migration, and Structure of Feeling in Contemporary China

Nitz, Garrett
Tutor: Esther Heller
Mentor: Glenda Carpio
Title: The Gag is X: Or Black Humor, in Theory, in Two Plays, One Show and A Story, and Two Memes

Wang Zi-Ming, Sean, Joint ESPP II
Tutor: Shaowen Zhang
Mentor: Karen Thornber
Title: Text-ures in the Ordering of Life: Boundaries and Scale in the Classification of Invasive Species

Dessert and refreshments will be served.